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I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Pat Summitt

Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
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Achievement Support Surender Team Trust Work Yourself
A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
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Achievement Competition Feeling Goal Myself Need
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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Equality Oragnization Powerful Responsibility Team Weapon
There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Competition Feeling Survive Wrong
I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
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Myself Style Thinking
Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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Goal Penalty System Target Yourself
No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
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Examination Feeling Reality Strength Strong Weakness Yourself
The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.
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Greatness Human Recognition Strength Weakness Work Yourself
Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
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Ambitious Kind Prosperity Success Way Yourself
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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People Result Team Work
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Karma Loyalty Side Yourself
Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.
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Attitude Believe Choice Positive Thinking Yourself
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.
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Fans Listening Start Wind
Combine practice with belief.
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Belief Combination Practice
We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
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Aware Body Communication Language
I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.
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Enjoyment Myself Process Team Thinking

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

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I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

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